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CNN Suffers Worst Ratings Week in Nine Years Due to Unwatchable Programming

No More Grinding Away at Filler (We Did the Hard Part.)

The Grind:

It’s not news, necessarily, that CNN is not keeping up with the post-Trump administration times we live in — despite a change in course directed by new boss Chris Licht following a merger between CNN’s parent company and Discovery. But when tanking ratings continue to sink to levels not seen in nearly a decade, there’s bound to be some talk of whether the network is salvageable at all.

Enter a new dispatch from TheWrap noting CNN “notched its lowest ratings in nine years across all its day parts for the week of Jan. 16 through Jan. 22, 2023,” per ratings data from Nielsen: “just 444,000 viewers in primetime, 93,000 in the all-important age 25-54 news demographic and 417,000 in viewers and 80,000 in the demo for total day.”

The Details:

As TheWrap noted, last week was “the first time since May 2014” that saw CNN stay below 450,000 viewers. And it’s not like there was a industry-wide dip in viewers last week. It turns out Fox News Channel, the leader in cable news for almost too many consecutive weeks to track at this point, had 1.4 million total viewers and 176,000 in the 25-54 demographic during the same timeframe. Their primetime shows brought in two million viewers and 256,000 in the 25-54 range.

Apparently not caring to hold back in evaluating Licht’s programming success or lack thereof, TheWrap outlined the ratings woes on the fresh “CNN This Morning” with hosts he hand-picked to try competing with Morning Joe on MSNBC and Fox and Friends:

Some especially troublesome news out of this week’s Nielsen numbers is that Licht’s primary programming move, “CNN This Morning,” also suffered the lowest week since its launch just three months ago. It averaged just 331,000 viewers while “Fox & Friends” had nearly 1 million and “Morning Joe” drew 760,000. Read more…

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